They are the ones who managed to reach the top. Through their own professional path, they became very wealthy and successful. The Sunday Times has published its new list, with the 100 richest people in the world. Among them are many familiar faces, active in the tech field.
Yes, a lot of them started out in a garage, like Jeff Bezos, and you have seen today. In the list below you will see the 19 richest tech billionaires in the world at the moment.
19. Zhang Zhidong, cofounder of Tencent Holdings
18. William Ding, founder and CEO of NetEase
17. Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs
16. Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Limited
15. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
14. Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft
13. Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of Samsung Group
12. Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies
11. Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank
10. Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO
9. Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba Group
8. Pony Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent
7. Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google
6. Larry Page, cofounder of Google
5. Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle
5. Carlos Slim Helou, director of America Movil
3. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
2. Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft
1. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.
